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Smiling confidently, former President Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri strode into the town-house headquarters of Argentina's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces in downtown Buenos Aires one morning last week and described his mood as "very good." By the time he left, night had fallen, and so had Galtieri's cheer. After nine hours of questioning by Argentina's highest military court, the army general who launched his country's disastrous 1982 war with Britain over the Falkland Islands was under formal arrest. Galtieri was soon joined by the other members of the military junta...
...reckoning for Galtieri & Co. has been slowly approaching since last November. At that time an official panel concluded that military trials were appropriate. The report suggested that Galtieri and Anaya be charged with failing to provide assistance to Argentine forces on the remote Falklands while British troops closed in. If found guilty of that offense, the pair may be given sentences of death or life imprisonment. Brigadier General Lami Dozo, whose spirited air defense against the British gave Argentina its only consolation in defeat, still faces the possibility of a lengthy prison sentence and dishonorable discharge...
...President Raúl Alfonsín's first acts after his Dec. 10 inauguration was to decree that nine military junta members, including former Presidents Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri, be brought before the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, Argentina's highest military court. In court-martial proceedings that began last week, they were accused of mass murder and torture of civilians. Alfonsin also signed a bill repealing an amnesty law proclaimed by the outgoing military government that would have absolved the armed forces of responsibility for the atrocities of the "dirty...
Alfonsín named nine generals and admirals, including three former Presidents: General Jorge Videla, who presided over the early days of the dirty war; General Roberto Viola, Videla's successor; and General Leopoldo Galtieri, author of the doomed attempt to capture the Falkland Islands last year. Alfonsín's decree called on the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which includes high-ranking officers from all three services, to pass "summary judgment" on the accused officers. Alfonsín announced that seven left-wing terrorists active during the '70s would be tried by civil courts...
...young Raul was packed off to the San Martin Military Academy in the province of Buenos Aires. Among his classmates was Leopoldo Galtieri, who as head of the military government in 1982 guided Argentina into invading the Falkland Islands. Alfonsin sometimes jokes that because his Jesuit-educated father and uncles had failed to become priests, his mother hoped that he would prove equally resistant to the lure of a military career. "She was right," he says...